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VOICEOVER SUPPORT
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Virtual Open Mic Night
Virtual Open Mic is Paused For Now. Please check back in the future. Every Wednesday – beginning May 12th, drop into our FREE Zoom Open Mic to practice reads with our booth directors and producers, ask questions about the voiceover business for commercials, films, video games, podcasts, promos, and more! Join any time! There is …
Your Recording Set-up
If you haven’t already recorded your piece from the last section, let’s discuss the best way to do so now. And for those of you who have, here’s a technical review. First, let’s discuss environment. The two key aspects of WHERE you’re recording are your actual location and the ambience level in that spot. So, …
Reading Copy, pt. 2
Once you’ve found some good sources for copy, whether printed or online, you can get to work by reading them out loud. It may be you’ve never done that before, save for pulling a quote to discuss with a friend, but it’s always been there, part of the fabric of our modern lives, just waiting …
Reading Copy, pt. 1
The heart of voiceover is about reading copy and the wondrous aspect of that is in the endless variety that winds up on the stand in front of you. You never really know what’s coming next and the gamut runs from ridiculous to sublime to… ridiculous again. Developing a skill for reading copy requires, well… …
Intro
Hello Everyone: If you’re interested in learning a craft that’s creative, accessible, filled with endless variety, loaded with income potential and can be centered inside a corner of your bedroom closet… welcome. Voice-over is a skill you can keep, enjoy and profit from, as a sideline or a full-time career for your whole life. And we …
Moving Forward, Breaking Through and Thriving
As we emerge from 2020, VOLA is moving forward, breaking through and thriving! We are super excited to offer an enhanced education program which is setting a new standard of excellence for our industry. We believe that, as a creative services post production company, VOLA is in a unique position to connect our students with …
Mic Technique vs Reading Copy
A common challenge voice-over artists face is with reading copy on the page. If you’re close to the mic and reading two pages of copy with them placed as a 2-page spread on the stand in front of you, once you finish reading page one your head is going to tilt to the right in …
Me ’n’ Mike
Your relationship with Mr. Mic should be close but not too intimate. As a rule, stay about 8 inches from the pop filter. That’s close enough for the mic to pick up every nuance but farenough to help keep plosives from overwhelming the pop filter and hitting the mic with a little blast of air …